The Evolution of Innovative Competencies in Subsidiaries of Multinational Companies
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In order to better understand the competitiveness of companies and with this their surrounding regions, economic geographers have focused on competencies in manufacturing companies for more than two decades. This paper discusses the development of innovative competencies at plant level. Using subsidiaries of international automotive supply companies in Poland as an example, we analyze and typify the innovative changes of competencies that have taken place and the conditions required for these changes. Based on a critical review of the evolutionary perspective and additional empirical insights we look at junctions that open up by innovative competencies and lead to new pathways of development in peripheries of large existing markets.
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